Implications of export competitiveness, and performance of textile and clothing sector of Pakistan: Pre and post quota analysis

Ahmad, Nawaz; Kalim, Rukhsana Article Implications of export competitiveness, and performance of textile and clothing sector of Pakistan: Pre and post quota analysis Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Sciences (PJCSS) Provided in Cooperation with: Johar Education Society, Pakistan (JESPK) Suggested Citation: Ahmad, Nawaz; Kalim, Rukhsana (2014) : Implications of export competitiveness, and performance of textile and clothing sector of Pakistan: Pre and post quota analysis, Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Sciences (PJCSS), ISSN 2309-8619, Johar Education Society, Pakistan (JESPK), Lahore, Vol. 8, Iss. 3, pp. 696-714 This Version is available at: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/188164 Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen: Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden. 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If the documents have been made available under an Open Content Licence (especially Creative Commons Licences), you may exercise further usage rights as specified in the indicated licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Pak J Commer Soc Sci Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Sciences 2014, Vol. 8 (3), 696-714 Implications of Export Competitiveness, and Performance of Textile and Clothing Sector of Pakistan: Pre and Post Quota Analysis Nawaz Ahmad (Corresponding author) Assistant Professor, National College of Business Administration &Economics, Lahore. Pakistan Email: [email protected] Rukhsana Kalim Professor, Dean of Research and Ph.D Programs, University of Management and Technology Lahore, Pakistan. Email: [email protected] Abstract Textile and Clothing sector of Pakistan has been facing different international trade reforms i.e. Multi-fiber Arrangements, Quota elimination and for some of the developing countries European union, introduced special trade arrangements like GSP plus to improve their balance of trade conditions. In the light of pre quota elimination and post quota elimination periods, this paper highlights trade performance of textile and clothing sector in depth. This study focused on finding the extent of revealed comparative advantage of textile and revealed comparative advantage of clothing sector on overall textile and clothing trade performance of Pakistan. For this purpose study applied Johansen co-integration to check long run relationship among trade performance, revealed comparative advantage of textile and revealed comparative advantage of clothing sector. This study found that textile sector has been significantly contributing in trade performance of textile and clothing sector over all, instead of clothing sector of Pakistan. Moreover, study observed that textile and clothing sector did not get benefit of quota elimination as it was expected. Key Words: quota elimination, multi-fiber arrangements, geographic concentration, constant market share, quota elimination 1. Introduction According to World Bank Report, “ Globalization, Growth and Poverty: Building on inclusive World Economy (2002)” 24 developing countries achieved higher growth, better schooling and life expectancy due to their assimilation in world economy. Apart from foreign direct investment exports have been one of the determinants of this achievement. Developing countries can expand their markets by allowing firms exporting and achieving economies of scale. Exporting is a one of the channels of technology transfer to other countries (Pack. 1993). Generally industrial policies are made to stimulate exports. Ahmad and Kalim 697 The export competitiveness or export performance in general can be measured by many factors such as real exchange rate, comparative advantage, terms of trade, geographic concentration, state of technology, trade policies, world income etc. This study examines the impact of quota elimination on export performance of textile and clothing sector of Pakistan. Trade policy in Pakistan has major role in increasing or decreasing overall exports of Pakistan. Pakistan’s economy has relied on agricultural sector in the early stages of development, because Pakistan was lacking in industrial base and infrastructural facility in early period of development. Therefore, efforts were put to build strong industrial base for industrial and Pakistan’s development. Due to favorable export policies such as reduction in tariffs and other non-tariff measures changed export pattern of Pakistan. Being a fourth larger producer of cotton production, Pakistan’s textile and clothing sector flourished over time. This sector has great potential of export and one of the major sources of employment. The performance of textile and clothing sector has been inconsistent after quota elimination. Volatile performance of this industry can be attributed by prices of raw material, particularly cotton, international competition and trade policies of importing countries, which in turn determine the production of cotton. Trade in textile and clothing has been regulated in many forms since last many decades. In 1970,s new regime of low trade restrictions and competition was initiated under General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). Developed countries introduced quota restrictions on the exports of developing countries in 1974 to protect their industries from competition. This quota restriction was named as MultiFiber Arrangements (MFA). In the Uruguay round it was decided to put quota restrictions in dismantle. Later MFA was replaced by Agreement on Textile and Clothing (ATC). With the existence of WTO in 1995, it was decided to eliminate quota restrictions in four phases of subsequent 10 years (1995-2005). Though, Pakistan’s textile and clothing sector could not get benefit of quota elimination so far (Ahmad and Kalim, 2013). According to Ahmad and Kalim (2013 ) RCA of textile and clothing products at 3-digit SITC, reveals that after quota elimination comparative advantage of SITC 269, 651, 652, 655, 658, 659, 841, 843, 844, 845, 846, and 848 declined with the passage of time and for some commodities remained volatile. However, comparative advantage of SITC-842 improved in the year of 2010 and 2011. Over all it has shown mixed trend in the context of RCA. Saboniene (2011) calculated RCA for certain manufacturing commodities of the Lithuanian economy. The inference of this study was that economic crisis in the country has lowered export volume and reduced foreign direct investment. This study further revealed that Lithuanian economy had comparative advantage in the exports of traditional commodities such as textile and clothing, leather and foodstuffs. 1.1 Performance of Textile and Clothing Sector of Pakistan Textile sector contributes 8.5 percent of GDP and provides 15 million employments, which is 30 percent of total work force of 49million in Pakistan. Textile is an agro-based industry; and Pakistan is a major producer of cotton, therefore foremost stress has been given to the development of this sector for reaping benefits of the abundant resources of cotton. At present, Pakistan has 521 textile units, 1221 ginning units, 124 large spinning units, 471 spinning units, and 425 small units which are sources of textile products (Government of Pakistan, 2009). Table 1.1 shows present picture of Pakistan’s textile and clothing export share in the world trade. Export Competitiveness, Performance of Textile and Clothing Sector 698 Table 1: Export of Textile and Clothing (US $ billions) 2000 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 World Textile 157.3 195.5 202.7 220.4 240.4 250.2 211.0 World Clothin g 197.7 260.6 276.8 309.1 345.8 361.9 316.0 Total 355.0 456.1 479.5 529.5 586.2 613.1 527.1 Pakistan Textile 4.5 6.1 7.1 7.5 7.4 7.2 6.5 Pakistan Clothing 2.1 3.0 3.6 3.9 3.8 3.9 3.0 Total 6.7 9.1 10.7 11.4 11.2 11.1 9.5 %age of World Trade 1.88 2.01 2.23 2.15 1.91 1.81 1.80 Source: WTO (2010) Since 2000, Government of Pakistan started emphasizing on the growth of value added production of textile sector and its exports. For this purpose comprehensive Textile Vision-2000 policy was formulated with the aims of bringing innovations, market driven strategy, to encounter challenges of WTO. However, the progress of value added production of weaving and spinning sectors has not been satisfactory in the beginning of this decade. The production of yarn was 1541 million kg in the years 1997-98 and it increased by 277 million kg in the years 2001-02 which was increment of 4 percent per annum on average. However, blended yarn’s share in the total production of yarn decreased from 33 percent to 24 percent during the period from 1997-98 to 2001-02 All Pakistan Textiles Mills Association (APTMA, 2002). Due to tax relief by the Government of Pakistan to textile industry, export reached to US $ 11.031billion against the set target of $ 10.4 billion. Government also exempted additional tax on yarn manufacturers and suppliers in 2003. The emergence of WTO and entrance of China into WTO severely affected other exporting countries of textile products and producers. The textile industry remained incapable of achieving benefits of post quota regime. As far as investment in textile sector is concerned, it remained about US $ 7.5 billion during the period from 1999 to 2009. The imports of textile machinery have been declining since 2004. From the year 2004 till 2009 it declined by 46 percent (Economic Survey of Pakistan, 2009). The growth trend of textile sector has shown volatility, it improved until 2004-05 later it started declining and in the year ended 2010-11 it improved by 1 percent. Increase in prices of raw cotton globally has increased the input cost and prices of textile products which resultantly increased export earnings of textile sector of Pakistan from US$ 7663.8 million to US$ 9956.5 million from the year 2009 to 2011. Cotton and synthetic products are exported in the form of readymade garments, bed wear, yarn, fabric etc. In the year 2010-11 improvement in the performance of textile industry is due to increase in unit values of all categories of textile products, resultantly textile export increased by US$ 2760 million in absolute terms. Despite increase in prices of textile goods, export demand of textile products increased from EU and US. Pakistan’s textile produces high quality yarn and exports instead of using for high value added products like garments and fabric. Japan, Hong Kong, and South Korea are major importer of this good quality Yarn of Pakistan’s textile sector. Ahmad and Kalim 699 2. Literature Review Export pattern of Pakistan is extremely concentrated in terms of product classification. The reason behind is dependency on agricultural based commodities such as cotton. Therefore, cotton oriented manufactured products such as yarn, knitted; cotton clothes and woven products of Pakistan captured the demand of foreign markets. Commodity concentration deteriorated over all exports earning not only of Pakistan but of other developing countries too. The reason is greater dependency on primary products instead of commodity diversification. Tariq and Najeeb (1995) had drawn the same inference that commodity concentration in Pakistan has yielded significantly positive effect on exports earning instability in Pakistan. In Indonesia, a study was conducted at firm level using a unique data set. This study contributed to analyze firms export behavior of manufacturing plants in Indonesia. According to this study export behavior of firms differ due to differences in their technology (Dosi, 1988). Technology, research and development are important variables in determining exports (Wagner, 2001). In the history of international trade theories like Heckser-Ohlin model was based on very strong assumptions of no economies scale, perfect competition and constant technology, but after eighties new theories of trade relaxed some rigorous assumptions to analyze other sources of comparative advantage. Therefore in new models some assumptions were incorporated such as imperfect competition, economies of scale and these assumptions also determine trade pattern (Helleiner, 1992). According to Dosi et al. (1990) technological gap and new technology determines international trade patterns. Some researcher focused on firm size as one of the variables affecting international trade patterns (Bonaccorsi, 1992 and Berry, 1992 for overviews). An inverted U-shaped relationship was found between size of the firm and degree of exports (Wagner, 1995; Kumar and Siddarthan, 1994). Though size of firm matters but for very large firms this may not be advantageous if products of firms are domestic market oriented and firms enjoy monopoly that does not give any incentive to export Wakelin, (1998). According to researchers, both internal and external factors determine export performance. Internal factors are related to supply side factors while external factors include geographic concentration, market access and other countries trade policies. Foreign demand greatly influences on export performance. If countries have close borders or located in same region may have greater demand of products than country located away or outside the region. Export earnings of a country may be affected by geographic concentration and concentration of particular export commodities (Aslam 1985, Massell 1963). According to Funke and Holly (1992) most of the studies in passed have focused on demand side factors to explain long run determinants of export performance, his study focused on both demand and supply side determinants to measure export performance of manufacturing sector of West German. The findings of this study revealed that supply side factors are more important than demand side factors of export performance. Sharma (2000) estimated the determinants of export for Indian economy for the period 1970-98. This study revealed that when domestic prices fall than world prices, export demand increases. Further, study found that supply of exports is positively related with domestic prices, and with the rise in domestic prices, domestic supply also increases. On the other hand foreign direct investment has positive but insignificant impact on export performance. Developing countries emphasized to increase their share of exports in world trade. To this end Bacchetta (2007) analyzed that many developing countries have Export Competitiveness, Performance of Textile and Clothing Sector 700 increased their share in world trade from one quarter to one third approximately. Asian countries particularly China increased its share because of product diversification. According to findings of this study Asian countries had share about 11.7% in world export in 1985, which increased to 21.5% in 2005. While share of African countries decreased from 4.3% to 2.9% during the same period. Poor performance of African countries was attributed to the dependence on primary products. Infrastructural facilities play an important role in export performance as it affects supply capacity of a country. Santos (2000) observed the strong relation between export growth and liberalization of trade and found relaxing anti-export bias increased export competitiveness in several developing countries such as Pakistan, India, Malawi and Tunisia. This study estimated export demand function by using panel data and applied fixed effects. The inferences drawn by this study were according to demand function theory. The increase in relative prices would reduce the level of exports and world income as a demand component would increase the level of exports. However, export duties reduced the level of exports but have shown insignificant impact on export growth. Trade liberalization increased the level of exports and yielded highly significant impact on the growth of exports. Hossain and Alauddin (2005) conducted a study on export structure and trade liberalization in Bangladesh considering Structural Adjustment Program (SAP) and its effects on export growth. Bangladesh’s major exports were from textile and clothing sector which grew due to trade liberalization. This study estimated the effects of import to GDP ratio and trade policy bias on export growth by applying ARDL technique to cointegration. This study found positive impact of trade liberalization on export growth in the long run. Despite the transition from traditional exports to industrial exports, study found that Bangladesh is still lacking in product diversification. According to Bacchetta (2007) transport infrastructure has been impediment in export performance, competitiveness and sustainable development. Berman and Hericourt (2008) explained the role of financial development in export performance of a country. Using cross sectional data of firms of developing economies, they found financial constraints are the cause of low productivity and consequently low export. They were of the view that financial development is one of the sources of increasing exporters and export performance. Carballo and Volpe (2009) analyzed exports of Peru for the period 2000 to 2006 and found large firms have more chances to survive in the markets. Further, product and geographical diversification are necessary for increasing export performance and increase the survival duration in the market. According to them larger firms have more ability to bear sunk cost to stay and enter in the export markets. Besedes and Blyde (2010) used data of SITC 4 digit level commodities to find factors that determine export survival rates across many countries. The main findings of the study are import demand elasticity of the goods, transportation cost, and distance explain survival and export market. Consistency of staying in market depends on common language, common border and size of partner countries. Ratnaike (2012) estimated empirical relation between export performance and trade liberalization for 27 OECD countries. This study took into account two measures for trade liberalization i.e. tariff and degree of openness. Using panel data from the period 1980 to 2010, this study also estimated steady state situation. To analyze export performance this study captures the impact of real effective exchange rates, average tariff rates, for sample and domestic countries. This study found significant impact of trade Ahmad and Kalim 701 openness and domestic tariff rate on export performance. Trade liberalization policies in OECD countries have been major contributors in export performance of these countries. Cadot et al. (2013) found that survival in market increases, when large number of firms enters in market for same product from same countries to same destinations. This study was conducted on four African countries i.e. Mali, Malawi, Tanzania and Senegal. This study also found that those firms having products diversification and explore more markets were successful in capturing markets and survival. 3. Data Sources To measure export performance of textile and clothing sector of Pakistan, this study focuses on variables such as geographical concentration, real effective exchange rate, real world per capita income, revealed comparative advantage (RCA) of textile and clothing sector, export value of textile and clothing and dummy for trade liberalization or quota removal period. The data on RCA has been obtained from the calculation of Ahmad and Kalim (2013). For analysis study used the period from 1980 to 2011. This paper explores long run equilibrium among the variables of study through co-integration approach. 3.1 Geographical Concentration Geographic concentration or market concentration and commodity concentration are important determinants of export performance Aslam (1985) and Massell (1963). Tariq and Najeeb (1995) estimated insignificant but positive impact of geographic concentration on export performance. Export performance may be affected if fewer markets or countries are focused. Textile and clothing sector exports and overall exports of Pakistan are overwhelmingly geographical concentrated that can make vulnerable position of Pakistan’s exports because of unfavorable policies of major trading partners. Therefore this study took into account geographic concentration by selecting seven major countries which have been trading partner of Pakistan over time. These countries are US, Uk, Germany, UAE, Hong Kong, Japan and Saudi Arabia. An average of exports from Pakistan to these seven countries is estimated for geographical concentration. For this purpose data is taken from the website of UNCTAD and various issues of Economic Survey of Pakistan. 3.2 World Real per Capita Income Export performance of any country also depends on buying ability of trading partner. Therefore this study captures the effect of ability by taking world real per capita income. The data has been taken from world development indicator (2013). 3.3 Real Effective Exchange Rate In their study of Zulfiqar and Kausar (2012) found negative and significant impact of real effective exchange rate on export performance of Pakistan. Similarly, Jenkins (1995) revealed that real effective exchange rate (REER) is important determinant affecting export performance in least developing countries. Therefore this study also captures the effect of real exchange rate on export performance. Data of REER is taken from the website of world Development Indicator (WDI) 2013. Export Competitiveness, Performance of Textile and Clothing Sector 702 3.4 Revealed Comparative Advantage According to comparative advantage theory a country should produce and export those commodities in which its resources are abundant for the production of that good. This simply means if country has comparative advantage its export performance may improve. Some studies have used constant market share analysis variable to see the country’s share of export. This study used RCA of textile and clothing sector separately. Data of RCA is taken from the study of (Ahmad and Kalim, (2013). Ahmad and Kalim 703 Table 2: Data on Revealed Comparative Advantage on Textile and Clothing Sector of Pakistan. Years RCA of Textile Sector of Pakistan RCA of Clothing Sector of Pakistan 1972 5.048 0.190 1973 10.547 0.401 1974 9.494 0.755 1975 11.908 0.971 1976 11.898 1.252 1977 12.613 1.480 1978 11.651 1.060 1979 13.527 1.071 1980 12.447 1.469 1981 12.287 1.712 1982 14.406 2.219 1983 15.401 2.653 1984 14.079 3.438 1985 12.421 3.278 1986 11.739 4.300 1987 13.388 4.383 1988 13.438 4.643 1989 13.836 4.950 1990 15.674 5.968 1991 15.743 5.948 1992 15.693 6.307 1993 17.397 7.728 1994 17.692 7.005 Post Quota 1995 17.971 6.802 1996 18.579 7.070 1997 18.888 7.419 1998 18.551 7.934 1999 19.740 8.558 2000 20.590 9.740 2001 20.302 9.583 2002 20.154 9.374 2003 21.115 9.847 2004 21.438 10.591 2005 22.634 11.51 2006 24.242 12.68 2007 24.282 12.53 2008 22.873 12.43 2009 22.114 11.12 2010 22.206 9.938 Source: Ahmad and Kalim (2013) Export Competitiveness, Performance of Textile and Clothing Sector 710 significance, indicating speed of convergence. This means any disturbance in long run equilibrium, will be corrected in every short rum period by a 1.36 percent. This also shows that correction towards equilibrium will take place in almost nine months of a year i.e. (1/1.367922). 5. Diagnostic Tests Diagnostic test are applied to check the problems in the model such as normality, serial correlation, heteroskedasticity etc. These results are given in table 11. Table 11: Diagnostic Tests Normality Test Jarque-Bera Statistic Jarque-Bera Statistic = 0.986124 Prob=0.6107 Serial Correlation Breush-Godfrey LM Test F-Statistic = 1.06293 Prob = 0.3611 ARCH Test Autoregressive Heterosckedasticity F-Statistic = 0.571076 Prob = 0.5716 Heteroskedasticiy Test White Heteroskedasticity F-Statistic = 1.08294 Prob = 0.4621 Model Specification Test Ramsey Reset Test F - statistic = 11.7027 Prob = 0.0003 Source Author’s Calculation The results indicated in table 11 there is no problem of heteroskedasticity, serial correlation, and normality in our long run model. The test statistic from Jarque-Bera, Breush-Godfrey LM test, White heteroskedasticity and ARCH test have p-values greater than one indicating no problem in the model. This study also applies cumulative sum (CUSUM) and cumulative sum of squares (CUSUM SQUARE) to check the coefficient stability. The results of these statistics are reported below. The null hypothesis of correct specification of regression equation that should be with in boundaries at 5 % level of significance as shown in figure 1 and figure 2 cannot be rejected. Similarly plot of cusum and cusum square are also within critical boundaries at 5 % level of significance. Both graphs depict the correct specification of model. Ahmad and Kalim 711 -15 -10 -5 0 5 10 15 86 88 90 92 94 96 98 00 02 04 06 08 10 CUSUM 5% Significance The solid line shows critical boundaries at 5% level of significance Figure 1: Plot of Cumulative Sum of Recursive Residual -0.4 -0.2 0.0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1.0 1.2 1.4 86 88 90 92 94 96 98 00 02 04 06 08 10 CUSUM of Squares 5% Significance The solid line shows critical boundaries at 5% level of significance Figure 2: Plot of Cumulative Sum of Square of Recursive Residual 6. Conclusion and Policy Recommendation In estimating the determinants of trade performance of textile and clothing revealed that real world per capita income, RCA of textile, and real effective exchange rate are Export Competitiveness, Performance of Textile and Clothing Sector 712 significantly affecting exports of textile and clothing sector of Pakistan. While geographic concentration and RCA of clothing sector, have insignificant but positive impact on the trade performance of textile and clothing sector. Though there may be several other factors which may have impact on trade performance but study captured few important determinants in the given data constraints and past literature. Results also revealed that quota abolition did not improve the export performance as dummy of quota removal shows no significant impact on exports. There may be a plenty of reasons for not getting benefit form quota elimination, such as high input cost and higher prices of exports than competitors. Study also found the existence of cointegration in this model that confirms long run relationship among the variables of study. Finally this accepts our hypotheses that quota abolition did not increase exports of textile and clothing sector of Pakistan. Therefore, present study suggests product diversification particularly focus should be made on other than cotton products to face competition; because Pakistan’s comparative advantage in clothing sector is weaker and not playing significant role. The low comparative advantage in clothing sector of Pakistan requires special attention to garments, hosiery products by policy makers. Real Effective exchange rate indicates that depreciation of domestic currency should be applied as it increases exports. World income as a demand component indicates that Pakistan should search markets at the demand in international markets is available. Dummy variable for capturing the effect of quota abolition found negative impact on export performance because EU and USA kept imposing high rates of tariff on Pakistani textile and clothing products. This has increased the prices of textile and clothing products of Pakistan in competitive markets but the prices of textile and clothing products of other countries such as Bangladesh and Vietnam did not increase due to absence of any trade restrictions. Therefore present study suggest reducing input costs to bring down the prices of final products which is only possible by increasing the growth of value added sector such as raw cotton, cotton yarn and raw exports must be limited to increase value added supply. This study also purpose to go for normalized revealed comparative advantage calculation to give better competitive picture on cross products and cross country comparison. REFERENCES Ahmad, N., Kalim, R. (2013). 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